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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Brytlyt vs. EJDB vs. InfinityDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

impala.apache.org

brytlyt.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

boilerbay.com

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.brytlyt.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Brytlyt

Softmotions

Boiler Bay Inc.

Initial release

2013

2016

2012

2002

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

5.0, August 2023

4.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

in-process shared library

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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